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...kind of newspaper assignment Gene Fowler relished in the 1920s was to be told by his managing editor to find a deserving old gentleman for a monkey-gland rejuvenation operation. When a scholarly greybeard named Mr. Bacon came into the New York American's offices primed with schemes of calendar reform and admitted, conversationally, to two carnal thoughts a year "at the most," Fowler knew he had his man. He went to a pet shop and procured "a nasty-tempered fugitive from an organ-grinder's beat," though in his columns Fowler called the monkey "Ponce de Leon...
George Crews McGhee, 48, Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning. Texas-born George McGhee is a millionaire oil gentleman (McGhee Production Co.) and a scholar (Rhodes), a geologist, a onetime U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs, and consultant, since 1958, to the National Security Council. As boss of the sensitive policy planning board, it will be his job to keep Secretary Rusk up to date on ideas as they bloom in foreign affairs institutes around the country, and to help formulate long-range policy...
...trifle over hearty. But certainly no one will deny that the situation in the library is not ideal--is, in fact, deplorably otherwise. It is literally impossible for me to study in the Reading Room, and a few nights ago I had an opportunity of observing at least one gentleman who is evidently in the some unfortunate position: during the three quarters of an hour in which I strove to read, he slept soundly and somewhat heavily in his chair, and was still asleep when I finally gave up and left in disgust... Varian Fry '30 Harvard CRIMSON, January...
...helpfully explained why whites oppose sit-in strikes. Faubus went on: "You see, there's been a higher incidence of venereal disease among Negroes than white people in this country. It's not a matter of color. A man has to indicate that he's a gentleman, that he is clean, and that you wouldn't catch anything from...
Maritally, U.S. Society abandoned the "double standard" only to adopt the quadruple and sextuple standards. Gentleman Editor Frank (Vanity Fair) Crowninshield epigrammatized the situation: "Married men make very poor husbands." By their second or third generations, most U.S. moneyed clans are marked for either 1) distinction, 2) extinction. Those that survive with distinction, e.g., Lowells, Rockefellers. Guggenheims, treat their money as a public trust and adopt the ethic of responsibility laid down by an early Du Pont: "No privilege exists that is not inseparably bound to a duty." Other socialite families go the way so graphically described by the Philadelphia...